Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau,vowed in a new video released on Monday that they would defeat a regional force fighting the extremists in Nigeria’s far northeast, Niger and Cameroun.
He said “Your alliance will not achieve anything. Amass all
your weapons and face us. We welcome you,”We
never rose up to fight Africa. We rose up to fight the world.We are going to fight the world on the principle
that whoever doesn’t obey Allah and the Prophet to either obey or die or become a slave.” You send 7,000
troops? Why don’t you send 70 million? This is small. Only 7,000? By Allah, it is small. We can seize
them one-by-one. We can seize them one-by-one” The third video featured shot in Damaturu, the
capital of Yobe State during their brief takeover on December 1,
2014.In the video, hundreds of insurgents in a convoy emerged in front of the Yobe State
Government House along Maiduguri Road where an exchange of gunshots between them and soldiers ensued before the
insurgents gained access into the premises. In a bush an unidentified spokesperson showcased over 50
vehicles and ammunition they got from Damaturu. “We had a field day in Damaturu, ate and dined, took
what we wanted and thereafter drove out of the town at our own volition, with all the vehicles,
ammunition and other things we wanted to take along,” he said
He also directly threatened Chad’s President Idriss Deby. Washington estimates that Boko Haram has
a core of between 4,000 and 6,000 fighters but is well- equipped after
raiding Nigerian Army positions
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